{"product_id":"the-authority-of-experience-john-c-oneal-9780271027791","title":"The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003eSensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as \"the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France.\" The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, \u003ci\u003eThe Authority of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study begins by presenting the main ideas of sensationist philosophers Condillac, Bonnet, and Helv騁ius, who held that all of our ideas come to us through the senses. The experience of the body in seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching enabled individuals, as John C. O'Neal points out, to challenge the sometimes arbitrary authority of institutions and people in positions of power. After a general introduction to sensationism, the author develops a theory of sensationist aesthetics that not only reveals the interconnections of the period's philosophy and literature but also enhances our awareness of the forces at work in the French novel. He goes on to examine the relations between sensationism and eighteenth-century French educational theory, materialism, and \u003ci\u003eid駮logie\u003c\/i\u003e. Ultimately, O'Neal opens a discussion of the implications of sensationist thought for issues of particular concern to society today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John C. O'Neal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271027797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271027791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"John C. O'Neal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056720179455,"sku":"9780271027791","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb7d1a21-e5f6-44f2-bbc1-76ce27dfd364.jpg?v=1685042885","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-authority-of-experience-john-c-oneal-9780271027791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}